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Newspaper Page TextASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS OF V THE WORLD FORTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. 58. RATE REDUCTIONS TO FOLLOW WAGE CUTS Mediation Fails; A. B. & A. Case to Harding FLOYD FURLOW TO BE STAR OF . INDUSTRY MEET Ex-Americus Man High est Salaried Executive j In U. S. MACON, March 11.—Interest in I the state-wide meeting of repre sentatives of every Georgia indus try to be held in Macon, March 16, is centering in the address of Floyd C. Furlow, president of the Otis Ele vator Company or New York City, the highest salaried industrial exec utive in the United States, it was announced by the arrangements com mittees for the meeting here today after they had received letters en thusiastically commenting on the meeting from various parts of the state. Mr. Furlow was born in Ameri cus, and was reared in Atlanta, grad uating from the Georgia School of Technology with honors. His fath er, Charles M. Furlow, a captain in the Civil war, will be remembered by many people all over the state as assistant secretary of the state treasury at one time. The story of Mr. Furlow’s life is, like many others, a case of a robust ambitious southern lad going to the northern industrial centers where he was given greater scope for ever cising his abilities and powers/From Georgia Tech he went to the Olis Elevator Company of New York and steadily climbed. Several years ago he was made a vice-president of that company, with a salary equal that of the president of the United States. His subject at the meeting will be, “Research —The Key to Riches.” The Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso ciation of Georgia has been called to meet in Macon on March E5, on account of the fact that most of their members will be in this city for the Greater Industrial Georgia meeting at that time. A letter to all members of the Southern Meta) Trades Association in Georgia was sent*out by j. S. Schofield, vice-pres ident of that association an 4 presi dent of the J. S. Schofields Sons Company of this city yesterday urg ing all members of the association to attend the meeting. “We make nothing. We only form and discover what is already here, but which without our asist ance cannot release itself from shapeless chaos,” Mr. Schofield’s let ter reads. “This meeting is for co operation, development of resources, scientific research, and expert train ing. We extend to you an earnest wish for ycur presence at the meet ing, feeling that as “Observation more than books, Experience rather than persons are prime educators,” that you as well as the state will be benefited by being with us, and as sisting iq putting Georgia industries where they will be recognized the world over.” The Chamber of Commerce com mittee on entertainment of visitors, which has charge of an automobile tour of industrial Macon which wiil be given the visitors, was announced last night. It is composed of H. V. Arnett, chairman; Ralph Birdsey,. Graeme Plant, B. E. Willingham, Jr., and John S. Schofield. Interest in the meeting is ap pearing in all parts of the state, responses coming in to the local ar rangements committee taxing their energies in arranging hotel, lunch eon and dinner accommodation. Cards from many of the industrial leaders of the state announcing their intentions of coming and heartily endorsing the movement are- .being received on every mail by the local committee, headed by .Henry C. Fowler. High School Nine Meets Aggie Team The Americus High School base ball nine opened the local baseball season this afternoon with a game with the Aggies at the playground. I The Americus High Schobl has al ways turned out an excellent base ball team and this year promises no exception. A o crackerjack nine has' been picked and many gqod subs are on the field waiting for a chance in the game. The Aggies nine has shown njoro promisi this year than any previous ly- The line-up for the Americus High was to be,- Edwin Player, c.; Kinson Finley, p.; Roland Broad hurst, lb; William Fetner, 2b; James Collins, 3b; John Gibbs, ss; William Baugh, rs; Darby Read, cf; and Mruph McDonald, If. y x® a L-l ' 1 GEORGIA STARS LEAD YANKEES IN QUEST OF BRITISH GOLF LAURELS [( i J " — - H ® :: l / Bobby Jones and his 300-yard swing—Alexa Stirling registers a golf smile'. Uncle Sam Looks to Alexa Stirling and Bobby Bobby (ones To Bring Back Honors— Girl Champion balls Four overseas golf championships are going to be somebody’s for the winning this summer. They are all top-notch crowns: British amateur. British open. British women’s. . French women’s. And America has a cracking good chance to drag them all in. Uncle Sam will have a worthy set of golfers on foreign soil when the events get under way. Foremost among these will be Miss Alexa Stirling, America’s woman champion golfer, and Bobby Jones, youthful star oT the greens and fair ways. Both hail from Atlanta. Miss Stirling sailed for England March 8. Jones will go with the American golfing team May 1. Just recently the two stars finish ed their last practice round together in this country at East Lake, near Atlanta. When the 18th hole was “dropped,” Miss Stirling headed for New York. “Goodby and good luck, Alexa!” “Thank you, Bob—l’ll see you in England!” In Championship Play. And the next time these, two At lanta stars swing clubs oh the same course it will be in championship play—one of them battling for the ULTIMATUM BY RUSSIAN REBELS Demand Surrender Os Petrograd By March 22; Threaten Shelling LONDON, March 11.—The revo lutionary authorities at the Fortress of Kronstadt have sent an ultima tum to the Soviet authorities at Pe trograd demanding surrender of that city before March 22, threatening a general bombardment, according to advices received here. Gasoline Makes Third Drop Os Cent Here . The price of gasoline in Ameri cus was reduced from 30 1-2 cents to 29 1-2 cents a gallon Friday morning. This is the third reduc tion made here in the past few weeks. The reduction is made all companies in Americus. ERIC U [Soli PUBLISHED IN THE~HE ART OF PIXiE~jW? women’s crown and the other for the men’s. Miss Stirling plans to try out many European courses before “play” is calld on May 30. “Among them will be St. An drews, in Scotland,” she said. “That’s the home of golf, you know'.” Miss Stirling’s father is a native of Scotland. She made' a trip over when she was 10. “I remember something of Scot land and about its breezes. But J wasn’t playing golf then—and that makes a difference.” She will enter the British tourna ment the undisputed best woman player in America. She didn’t lose a match last seasoh. And she won the Canadian women’s crown, the United States women’s crown, and the great Berthellyn crown, of Phila delphia. Her real battle is expected when ghe meets Miss Cecil Leitch, the Brit ish champion. To Compete In France After competing in the British play, Miss Stirling will go after the French title, play for which is set for Jupe 14. Jones will be America’s principal fliope in the British amateur and open championship. He plays in the former the week of May 23, and in the latter about two weeks alter. PACKERS’ STRIKE PLAN TO CABINET Secretary Davis Goes Into Meeting With Data WASHINGTON, March, 11.—Sec retary Davis went to the cabinet meeting today-prepared to make up with President Harding the impend ing strike in the packing industry. OMAHA, Neb., March 11-.—The appeal by the conference of the Meat Cutters anti Butcher’s Work men Association to President Hard ing to try to prevent wage reduc tions and changes in working hours from going into effect March 14 t the departments of justice and la bor, according to information re ceived from Frank Morrison, secre tary of the American Federation of Labor at Washington. The confer ence committee were to arrange im mediately for a strike vote. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 11, 1 921. HAMONS RISE witNarding BACK |F KILLING Unusual story In Ard more’s National Com mitteem|an’s Killing ARDMORE, >kla„ March 11.— Why Jake Hamdto broke with Clara Hamon is a stoi y of national inter est that will be ully revealed at the young woman’s trial, whicn started here yesterday, on the charge of Wiurdering the -'Republican national committeeman aWd oil .nnlti-million aire. The jury ‘ ras drawn yesterday and the case got kinder way today. The story wi be dii.wn piece meal from witnesses for the prose cution in order feo prove Clara Ha mon guilty of premeditated killing. In a word it ifythis: Hamon sought to renew his respectability in keeping with the new poetical < state in which he found himself as a result of his successes in the last political cam paign. To rehabilitate himself, he had de termined to forsake Clara Hamon, with whom he had associated openly for 10 years, and to re-instate himself with the wife whom he had deserted and his two children. It was with this in view that Ha mon had negotiated the separation agreement with the girl who was to kill him in the hour of their parting. Helps Harding That Hamon had won the favor of President Harding to a degree gener ally unknown has been learhed since his tragic death. He swung his in fluence from Wood to Harding at the Chicago convention. He contributed liberally to Harding’s expenses in Chicago. And after inducing Hard ing to quit the front porch to make a campaign speech in Oklahoma hp spent $50,000 to insure Harding a glorious reception. • To top all this off, Hamon, as na tional committeeman, delivered Ok lahoma to the Republican party, the first time in its history. It was believed in Oklahoma after the Harding victory that Hamon could have anything he asked; it was even regarded as highly probable that he would be made secretary of the interior. But Hamon perceived that his pri vate life would become a national scandal unless he got rid of Clara Hamon. Even the fact that she bore the Hamon name —which she acquir ed by marriage to a nephew of Jake Hamon, whom she shortly afterward divorced—would not save his face. So he decided “to bring his wife, son of 19 and daughter of 11, back from Chicago to Ardmore. All arrangements were completed; Mrs. Hamon and the children were preparing to move; Clara Hamon was going to live in California on a settle ment—even had her railroad ticket. Then came the shooting in the hq tel suite in Ardmore where they haa lived ever since Hamon' dominate! her as a girl of 17. Hsmon’o Message Did Clara Hamon shoot him in self-defense on what was to be their last day together, or did she shoot him deliberately rather than gite him up to his wife and children? This is the question the trial is to an swer. “I was accidentally sh c.”.is the message Hamon sent to tin work while he lay dying in Ardmore. It was the last gallant act of a contradictory character. Hamon was poverty-stricken when he met Clara Smith, a clerk in a dry goods store. He often said his “luck changed the day he put his eyes on her.” She became his business ad viser; many knew her as his secre tary. Hamon was known as a politician —a shabby politician at that—when he took up.with Clara Smith. No one ever had suspected he had real busi ness ability: Angry at Wood. Hamon was the original Wood man in Oklahoma. He also was running against Jim McGraw of Ponca City, Okla., another million aire, who was seeking re-election as national committeeman. Suddenly this was in Chicago—Hamon learn ed Wood had picked McGraw for. a high , place in the organization. Hamon regarded this as a direct slap at himself. In the crucial hours of Wood’s drive for the nomination this word was brought to Hamon at his hotel: “The general would like to see you.” “Tell the general,” Harmon is said to have replied, “that I will be BUGG REFUSES TO BE BOUND BEYOND ABILITY Letters Passed Between Receiver and Media tors Published ATLANTA, March 11.—-Failure of mediation :n the strike on the At lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail road was indicated today when cor respondence between members of the federal mediation board and Re ceiver Bugg was made public, the let ters showing that Bugg maintains the position that he cannot accept any proposition which will bind him to agree to pay wages beyond the power of the road to earn. The mediators indicated they would present the facts directly to President Harding and seek his aid in settling the strike. Reports have been current in rail road circles here that the ’Frisco sys tem was negotiating with the A., B. fc A. for an outlet to the Atlantic seaports. The matter has created much iirterest because such a move would give the first direct rail con nection between the midwest and the south Atlantic ports which have"been seeking more ocean freight. Efforts here and in St. Louis to obtain any confirmation met with failure. Appointments Made By New President WASHINGTON, March 11.— Nominations made today by Presi dent Harding include: Former Representative John Esch and Mark Potter.to be members of the Interstate Commerce Commit sion. Fred Morris Deanng, of Missouri, to be assistant secretary of state William 11. Joyce, of California, renominated to membership on the Federal Farm Loan board. Thomas Marvin, of Massachusetts, to be a member of the Tariff Com mission and William Culbertson, of Kansas, renominated a member o£ that commission. Medical Director Edward Stitt to be surgeon general of the navy. Second Wage Cut For Employes Os Country A second cut in wages of county employes of 12 1-2 per cent was re vealed by the minutes of the meet ing of the county board last Mon day, which are published today. This affects principally the truck drivers, convict guards and overseers em-’ ployed in highway maintenance and and construction work. Early in the year a* cut of 25 per cent was or dered by the board. It was said none of the employes quit at that time. Body Os Murdered Youth Is Recovered LUMBER CITY, March 11.—The body of Robert Wilcox, 19, who was slain on January 15, was recovered two miles below the scene of the killing yesterday. The condition of the body indicated in the opinion of county officials that it had been buried in a shallow grave at the side of the Octfnee river and had been washed up by a freshet. Three men are under arrest in connection with the case. Congressman Crisn Home For a Month Congressman Chas. R. Crisp has returned to his home, in Americus from Washington, following the ad journment of congress on March 4 He expects to remajn here until the extra session, which President Hard ing has indicated he- will call for about the- second week in April. BELL GIVES BARBECUE. i A number of Americus people I and others from this section attend-] ed the annual barbecue at the plan- i tation of E. L. Bell at Adams Sta i tiorf, given Friday. • CHAMBER MOVES MONDAY. The Chamber of Commerce will move from its present location' on Jackson street to its new home ifi the Rylander Theater buildfng next Monday. * here until about timt for the con vention to assemble.” Hamon led the Oklahoma tion in the swing to Harding. And Hamon, who once had housed, his wife and two children in a tent while he worked for sl2 a week, who quit them on the eve of pros perity in petroleum and politisc for a girl clerk, prepared to reap the j harvest. What he got was a leaden bullet and a $12,000 coffin. HARDINGS .ALL.. r ! | w Sgl! I slj ‘ I \ I wW ■ ■ I ¥ L Krfow all these men? You should. They are leaders in public life and— they’re all Hardings! Top to bot tam: President Harding; Chester Harding, governor of the Panama Canal Zone; W. L. Harding, ex-gov ernor of Iowa; W. P. C. Harding, gov ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank. U. S. Commander To Follow Allies’ Orders FRENCH' MILITARY HEAD QUARTERS, Mayence, March 11— (By the Associated Press). —Major- General Alleai, commander of Amer ican forces of occupation, will fol low the same policy regarding thy collection of customs along the Rhine as on other problems connect ed with the occupation, making tho decisions of the Rhineland Commis sion his orders to his army, accord ing to information received from Coblenz today. Rumanian Prince Weds Greek King’s Daughter .ATHENS, March 11 —(By the Associated Press). —Greece ■ and Rumania were brought another step closer Thursday by the marriage of Princess Helen, of Greece, daughter < of King Constantine, to Crown Prince Carol, of Rumania. . This is the second uhion of mepr bers of the two reigning faimlies i.i a fortnight, the other being, the wed ding of the Duke of Sparta and i Princess Elizabeth, of Rumania. | • MARKERS. . . AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Good Middling lie/ NEW YORK FUTURES . Pc Open 11am Ipm Close! Mav H.Bl 1L.85 11.61 1P.67 11.06! July 12.30 12.30 13.10 12.13 12.07 j Oct. 12.83 12.89 12.63 12.67 12.58.1 WEATHER . Forecast ..for Georgia—Cloudy to night and Saturday; probably local rains; somewhat warmer tonight. AMERICUS TEMPERATURES (Furnished by Rexall Store.) 4 pm 67 4 am 56 G pm 63 6 am 545 8 pm- ..61 8 am 56 10 pin - 61 10 yam .......... .61 j Midnight 58 Noon' ....: L.. 65 j’2 am ...,57 2 pni 68 ~ SEE,HOW I | UNHABPIE-Vf ? j THOUGHT PRICE FIVE CENTS. PUBLIC UNABLE TO BEAR RATES SAYS OFFICIAL Skilled Men To Be Cut After Unskilled Labor CHICAGO, March 11.—Steps to bring about reductions in the wages of skilled employes probably will be taken by many railroads*'thrcugh'out the country as soon as adjustments can be ma'Ue in the pay of unsKUieu workman, according to officials ox the Association ot Railway Execu tives today. W. G. Beard, president of the Chicago & Alton Road, announced today that steps will be taken snort iy to reduce tne pay of its employes io bring about, an ultimate reuuction in freight and passenger rates, which now are “more than the puo lic can bear.” 'Hie Chicago Great Western Road, which yesteraay announced it wouiu begin conferences with its unskilled employes on wage reductions, today announced it would propose a per cent reduction lor everyone em ployed, from the president, down. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy yesterday held a canierence with representatives of its 10,1)00 unskill ed employes on proposed wage re ductions approximating 8 1-2 cents an hour, rhe conference adjourn-* ed until March 22, to permit the placing of the matter before the em ployes themselves. Wage reduction proposals affect ing thousand:; cf men were officially announced yesterday by practically every Western railroad with head quarters in Chicago. The roads will first hold meetings with their employes in an effort to reach some agreement regarding a reduction in wages. If the road and workers are unable to reach agreements the dispute r wiH be al lowed to g<. before the United States railway labor board. “Wages must come down,” said A.’ G. Wells, vice-president of the Santa Fe system. “Everybody knows that. We will, in a few Gays, as a start in a general readjustment, ask representatives of maifitenance of way and shop workers, especially the unskilled workers to come to Chi cago and agree to a more seemly wage schedule.” The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa cific and the Chicago and North Western, likewise notified its main tenance of way employes to meet here March 18 and 21 respectively, for a discussion of wage readjust ment. BOSTON AND MAINE; TO MAKE CUT APRIL Iti. BOSTON, March 11.—The Bos ton & Maine Railroad issued notice today of proposal to reduce the wages of certain classes < f employes,- including clerks, maintenance of way men, machinists, carpenters, etc., on April 16. It was announced conferences would be arranged with the em pjoyes. BOSTON, March 10.—The New York, New Haven and Hartford rail road announce that it will hold a conference of additional classes of employes regarding wage reduction proposals. NEW YORK CENTRAL TO.MAKE REDUCTIONS. NEW YORK, March 11.—-The New York Central announces that beginning April 16, it wiH revise « downward the Wirges of approxi mately 43,000 ‘eniployes. It is un derstood that the road subsidiary lines, employing approximately 174,- 000 men, will follow the lead of the parent organization. Eighty-five classifications .of em ployes would be effected by the re duction and most of these are mem-- bers of. the national labor organi- . zations the company announced. The reduction proposed would be variable but probably would be based on the increases of pay granted by the United States railway labor board’s/ decision No". 2 of last July. SETH TANNER. -I" kJ T A OE Th’ man wh?t takes things easy always has a hard time. What’s i beccme of all tlxa fellers that used t’ stand up t’ a bar an’ complain about th' price o’ acjrool books?

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, March 11, 1921, Image 1